The First Week

Well the first week of my graduate school career has ended and I am very excited about what each class will bring each week. And even though I have extensive reading assignments, I believe that I am ready for this semester. Plus the professors have deleted any fears that I had about grad school, which helps me a lot and for that I am really grateful. Now I know for sure that Harding Grad is the best place to be and that being a counselor is where I belong. I am already getting excited about getting my degree and starting my profession and it has only been one week! But I cannot wait for the rest of my training and finding out where God wants me to be.

I haven't really talked about what I have learned in marriage yet and I think it is a good time to do so. I believe that a lot of people (and yes, even myself sometimes) go into marriage and think that they are going to be happy no matter what. That happiness is just going to fall into our laps! But what I have learned is that you have to work together in marriage to be happy. Now true that you are suppose to be happy with the spouse that you have, but to be truly happy requires a lot of work. I don't believe that God created marriage to be easy and that we have to work as husbands and wives to work out all the problems in marriage. Over the years there has been a steady decline in divorces in the United States, but there has also been a steady increase of divorces among the Christian community. This shows me that even Christians are unwilling to work hard and be happy in their marriages. Let us all remember to work hard to make our marriages happy, last a very long time, and to be what God wants them to be.